I just read a really interestng article about a procedure that is being done in Allegheny General Hospital, GYN Division, Pittsburgh, PA. Hopefully, this information may open the door for Jehovah's Witnesses and others seeking to minimize the risk of hysterectomy and blood transfusions. The Procedure has been dubbed "Bloodless myomectomy."
Women with large sized fibroids and an enlarged uterus are often confronted with undergoing a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), due to the fact that a myomectomy (surgical removal of fibroids with the uterus remaining intact) often involves a sizeable blood loss.
At Allegheny General Hospital, GYN Surgeon, Dr. Jan Leski, has been performing a bloodless myomectony which may not necessitate the hysterectomy thus allowing a woman to retain the ability to later birth children albeit by caesarean section.
The surgery
Dr. Leski, isolates and clamps blood vessels to he reproductive organ to temporarily shut off the blood flow to the area. He then remove the fibroids and rebuilds the uterus using tissue from the patient's abdominal wall to reduce the formation of adhesions(scar tissue) that could later be a source of bleeding and infection.
This procedure is particularly beneficial when the uterus has become enlarged due to the fibroids (an enlarged uterus is subject to bleeding which would then require blood transfusions.)
For more information about this procedure, please visit http://www.bloodlessmedicine.org/ "An alternative to hysterectomy: A Doctor's Perspective" Look under archives to find the article.
Women with large sized fibroids and an enlarged uterus are often confronted with undergoing a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), due to the fact that a myomectomy (surgical removal of fibroids with the uterus remaining intact) often involves a sizeable blood loss.
At Allegheny General Hospital, GYN Surgeon, Dr. Jan Leski, has been performing a bloodless myomectony which may not necessitate the hysterectomy thus allowing a woman to retain the ability to later birth children albeit by caesarean section.
The surgery
This procedure is particularly beneficial when the uterus has become enlarged due to the fibroids (an enlarged uterus is subject to bleeding which would then require blood transfusions.)
For more information about this procedure, please visit http://www.bloodlessmedicine.org/ "An alternative to hysterectomy: A Doctor's Perspective" Look under archives to find the article.
